King of Black Mist

After the pygmy marmoset left, the canyon fell into dead silence again.

"Officer Zheng, you are injured, just take a nap, we can just keep watch." Li Qianxia couldn't help but say after seeing Zheng Qing holding on.

Zheng Qing didn't want to move, so she could only shake her head: "No, I'm not trying to be brave, I'm just worried that if I fall asleep, the enemy will attack me first."

Li Qianxia couldn't say anything anymore. If she continued, she seemed to be urging people to die.

Li Changzhou held Ak aside and said nothing. There was no moon tonight, and the sky was as dark as ink, so thick it was about to drip.

The campfire crackled, making the sound of fighting against the darkness, trying to hold on to a small, warm light.

Li Qianxia yawned and was thinking about asking her brother to tell a joke to cheer her up.

"Back." Yang Qinglan suddenly raised his head and cast his gaze towards the cliff, the front line of the war between fire and darkness.

Everyone looked over and saw that Zheng Qing, who was drowsy, became energetic.

Little Carrot crawled into the firelight from the darkness, shivering with cold.

Without waiting for the four people to say anything, she jumped four meters and landed beside the bonfire. She hugged her little body and began to warm herself.

"Aren't you afraid of me anymore?" Li Changzhou smiled.

"Don't scare it away again!" Li Qianxia motioned for him to shut up.

Little Carrot tremblingly raised his head, his white and neat little teeth trembled and said, "Now, now, you are not scary anymore."

Is it a rational reason? Li Changzhou thought.

When dopamine takes over and adrenaline is suppressed, he wants to kill the pygmy marmoset and rob it of its instinct to "avoid death and prolong life."

But now, how could he kill a fair, tender, talkative "child" who was shivering from the cold before he knew clearly that the other party was hostile?

He, Li Changzhou, is just an ordinary college student.

He suddenly thought of what Yang Qinglan said before. If he had no sister or teammates and acted alone, would he show mercy to Zheng Qing and the dwarf marmoset today?

He should become the ‘Invincible Hot Wheels’ and strike first without hesitation.

Yang Qinglan turned her head sideways and asked Li Changzhou, "Have you thought of anything?"

"Maybe it's a matter of perspective," Li Changzhou thought carefully and gave an answer he thought was credible, "A person like me can look like a god at one moment and a devil at another. Well, that must be the case."

"Well, you're so handsome."

"Don't think I don't know you're swearing."

"Reflect carefully," Yang Qinglan withdrew her gaze and stared at the bonfire, "Why does it make me have the urge to curse? I am such an elegant, intellectual, noble, gentle and elegant person."

Li Changzhou turned his head and glanced at her, his expression calm and cold, not like he was joking.

So shameless?

like.

On the other side, Li Qianxia was already chatting animatedly with Xiaoluobo, just like two monkeys.

"Do you have a name?"

"Pygmy marmoset."

"That's not it. Everyone calls it pygmy marmoset, right? So you need a more special name."

Who are the people in your mouth? Li Changzhou glanced at his sister and threw firewood into the bonfire.

"I don't have a more special name." Little Carrot shook his head, hugging his knees, like a very well-behaved little girl, but not wearing any clothes, which was not good.

"Then let me pick one for you. You are a monkey and a dwarf marmoset. How about calling it 'Zhu Wukong'? Zhu is Zhu Yuanzhang's Zhu."

"Does it know which Zhu Yuanzhang's Zhu is?" Yang Qinglan said subconsciously.

Li Changzhou couldn't help but say, "It's a female."

"What kind of female? Not polite! It's a girl!" Li Qianxia rolled her eyes at her brother, and then asked him as if she was about to fight, "Then what do you think I should call her?"

"It's not a human being, why do you have to marry someone's name? All things are equal." Li Changzhou dug into the fire pit, "I think it looks like a radish, so I'll call it 'little radish'."

"It's really not a person's name, it's a plant name given by people." Yang Qinglan nodded, mocking someone's belief that all things are equal.

"Little radish, little radish," Li Qianxia said while looking at the dwarf marmoset, and suddenly laughed, "it really looks like a radish!"

Li Changzhou pondered: "Isn't there a carrot emoticon now? When I go back, I will draw a more specific one based on it. Maybe I can sell it for some money."

Li Qianxia clasped her palms together and continued: "Then use the money from the sale to buy clothes for Xiaoluobo!"

"ah?"

Li Changzhou couldn't understand what a woman was thinking when she saw a cute little animal.

The dwarf marmoset recognized the name 'Little Carrot' and thought it was easier to pronounce than 'Zhu Wukong'.

From now on, Little Carrot is no longer the name Li Changzhou only calls the dwarf marmoset in his heart, everyone calls it that.

It also wrote "little carrot" on the nickname of the "identity card", fearing that it would forget it.

When it came to his nickname, Li Changzhou regretted it deeply because he couldn't change it.

His title as the "King of Black Mist" is like "May you never let me down" in QQ space. If you betray me, I will give everything to me and destroy everything you have, and it will become impossible to delete.

A night of despair, coldness, and a night that people never want to remember.

He stood up and walked around, not only to patrol, but also to dispel the warmth of the campfire and stifle his sleepiness.

When people are sleepy and tired, their concentration will decrease.

The night passed peacefully.

The desert is freezing cold in the early morning, and only sparks remain after the campfire in the middle of the night.

Four people and one monkey in summer clothes were all breathing white air.

"I have a proposal." The coldness prevented Li Changzhou from finishing his words at once.

Yang Qinglan simply didn't speak, and raised her chin slightly, signaling for him to continue speaking.

"The temperature is not high yet. We should seize the time, use the instinct of little carrots to find people, take the initiative and end this game."

He shook his shoulders and simply blended in with the cold, letting them absorb warmth from his body.

On the contrary, my spirit became much clearer.

He continued to say to the other three people and a monkey who were curling up to keep warm:

"Stay here and there will be water, but no food and no dry firewood to get us through the second night."

"Didn't you say," Li Qianxia shuddered, "didn't you say that you should conserve your strength and make plans to go back?"

"That was when there was no target," Li Changzhou said. "Now that we have Little Carrot, we can probably tell which direction there are contestants."

"I support it." Zheng Qing's voice was clear. "Some animals have very strong survival abilities in the desert. They dig holes, don't need to eat for a week, replenish water through morning mist, etc. We have no advantage compared with them."

She had another unspoken thought, leaving the canyon and walking out, maybe finding her scattered teammates.

Yang Qinglan was not in a hurry to make a decision. She asked Xiaoluobo: "Xiaoluobo, can you feel that there is danger, but is it not a very dangerous direction?"

Little Carrot nodded vigorously, curling up his jade-like toes, trying to lock in any places where heat was lost.

"Then let's go."

The four people and the monkey took turns drinking some water. Li Changzhou carried Zheng Qing on his back, climbed up the cliff again, and began to trek in the dim desert.